Sun, moon and stars through my window

Hi Everybody!

Happy Weekend!

Yesterday and today I enjoyed seeing the crescent moon and Venus, the morning star, outside my window. This afternoon I painted a background using various blues and turquoise paints, layered one over the other. I sprayed some of the layers with water and dabbed some paint away with a tissue. I gave it all a sprinkle of fairy dust. I drew a simple tree outline and painted it with brown/black, added the moon and star with my white Sigma pen and a few highlights to the tree. So this is the view from my window, for Art Journal Journey, through my window, and for Moo Mania and More, landscape

This is a lady I sketched recently at the ice parlour when drinking my coffee, she had such lovely eyes, a lot nicer than in my sketch. I used gelatos, pastel chalks and gel-pens. and  I am linking to Kim Dellow's Friday face and our challenge 49 Faces.

If I have counted rightly this should be face 22.

This was the photo from yesterday which inspired my painting:

I couldn't sleep in the night and went walking along the Rhine, and the sky was clear, full of stars, and the Milky Way was visible - just beautiful.

Today the sliver of moon was even thinner:

I love watching the morning sky - as you might just have noticed, 

but some days I would like to be able to sleep a bit longer!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and hanks a lot for coming by!

Window on Picasso

Hi Everybody!

Another week has flown by and it's Friday already - 

where did the time go?

For 'Through my window' at Art Journal Journey, Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin,  49 Faces, and Kim Dellow's Art it Friday,  I tried my luck with copying a Picasso this week. I think we can learn so much by studying and copying the masters. The original is called 'Le Rêve - the dream' and can be seen here.

I started off by drawing a sketch onto an A3 sheet painted with gesso.

Then I started adding colours . I used Schmincke water colours (from the time when I was at school!) and Gelatos with a water brush.

I changed the colours a bit, and outlined with a black fine tip pen, and drew the background lines with the same, rubbing out pencil lines which I didn't need any more

The wallpaper pattern was made with a tiny stamp:

After a rather cold and windy night, the day started off with the crescent moon and the morning-star peeping through the trees, and later a beautiful sunrise:

The windows and towers here belong to the buildings of the Diakonie in Kaiserswerth, and is the place where Florence Nightingale did her nursing training.

Have a  great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

The changing face of nature

Hi Everybody!

Today I have another face made for our 49 Faces challenge and for 

Kim Dellow's Friday show your face.

This face reminds me of summer, although summer is slowly flying away like the birds. I am enjoying making these part faces in reduced colours - and even with a lot of facial features missing, it is still clearly identifiable as a face. She was drawn and doodled with pencil, India ink pens and pastel chalks on an A3 gessoed background.

And here with reversed colours, making her look dark and mysterious:

Today the sun came out again. In summer the sun rises to the far left of my balcony, and then seems to move round, although I know it is the world turning, till it rises opposite my balcony in the late summer. 

The raindrops were still glistening on the rose-hips:

Nature is showing other flowers and plants:

And windows sometimes work as mirrors:

This tiny stained glass window was high up under a roof:

Have a great day, take care

and thanks a lot for coming by!